This volume of papers is vital reading for all those students, practitioners, and professionals operating in the field of product and engineering design and education.

Contents include:

Curriculum

• QAA benchmark statements and Open University design courses
• Design for life-sustainable futures - are we all guilty?

Projects

• Sustainability - a design exercise?
• Cabin and passenger environment design for the Airbus A380 - a case study for education
• Using small scale alternative energy equipment as a vehicle for sustainable development study

Related Topics

• Development of concept designs for a disaster relief shelter a student project
• Copying - a constructive process
• Product design education in practise - evaluating the key transition from undergraduate degree to initial industrial position
• Inclusive product design (ethics and sustainability) project teaching, using a major study project as the vehicle

Design is key to innovation and wealth creation - it is, therefore, critical that the issue of Design Education has a forum for debate and dissemination of best practice.